MENTALITY AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATION
MENTALITY AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATION

Summary/Abstract: In academic culture, the need for an adequate positioning in relation to the cultural metaphor as a fundamental representation arises, as part of the flow between mental reality and social reality. We need research methods that we believe can serve our purposes. Understanding the relationships between mentality and social representation leads us to the way of constructing and receiving cultural metaphors, reflected in literature. This approach directs the interpretation of texts towards the essential messages. This is how we can appreciate the power of influence of a cultural metaphor on our mind. Mentality reflects both the thinking and action of a real man, in the dynamics of his spiritual and cultural heritage, in the living movement of the received rules of life, in the existential scenario of his family, of the nation in which he was born and the world in which he lives. Mentality unites the inner man and the social man. It projects the work of the outside world onto the interiority of man, but above all, it shows the personal reaction of conscience towards society.

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